Fresh pea soup with mint and creme fraiche

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 tablespoons Sweet butter
1 small Onion; diced
1 Celery stalk; washed, diced
1 Leek; white only, washed, diced
Salt; to taste
Freshly-ground black pepper; to taste
1 teaspoon Curry powder
1 Bay leaf
½ teaspoon Dried thyme
2 quarts Chicken stock
3 pounds Fresh peas; shelled
1 cup Creme fraiche
2 tablespoons Chopped fresh mint

Directions

In a soup pot melt butter and add onion, celery, leeks, salt, and pepper.

Cook vegetables for 5 minutes until translucent. Add curry powder and cook 2 minutes. In cheesecloth, combine bay leaf and thyme and tie to form an herb sachet. Add sachet of herbs to vegetables. Have stock simmering in saucepan. Add hot stock to vegetables, boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 minutes. Add peas and simmer for additional 10 minutes. Remove sachet of herbs and discard. With immersion blender, puree soup (or puree with care in batches in a conventional standing blender). Return soup and pot to heat, add creme fraiche, being careful not to allow soup to boil, reheat.

Add mint and serve. This recipe yields 6 to 8 servings.

Recipe Source: MICHAEL’S PLACE with Michael Lomonaco From the TV FOOD NETWORK - (Show # ML-1C01 broadcast 03-30-1998) Downloaded from their Web-Site -

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04-13-1998

Recipe by: Michael Lomonaco

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